Martin Hug
Chief Financial Officer
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Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (0QKN) Q4 2025 Earnings Call
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (LSE: 0QKN) Q4 2025 earnings conference call, held 2026-03-10. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.677 Hello everybody here in Kirchberg and hello more than 100 participants 00:00:05.677 -- 00:00:12.462 online. Welcome to the full year result presentation of Linden Sprüngli 2025. 00:00:13.705 -- 00:00:17.569 I will walk you quickly through the highlights of 2025 00:00:17.569 -- 00:00:22.734 and we'll have a deeper look at the original performance, then I hand over to our 00:00:22.734 -- 00:00:27.872 CFO Martin Hug. He will give us an explanation on the financial 00:00:27.872 -- 00:00:32.378 results and explain the progress that we made in sustainability. 00:00:32.378 -- 00:00:37.425 And then I will outline our growth agenda and the outlook for this year and for the years 00:00:37.425 -- 00:00:42.549 to come. And then we will open the floor for questions and answers. 00:00:43.092 -- 00:00:46.594 We grew 12.4% last year. 00:00:47.737 -- 00:00:53.089 the strongest organic sales growth with the exception of the recovery after 00:00:53.089 -- 00:00:59.001 COVID. We achieved 5.9 billion Swiss francs turnover. 00:00:59.001 -- 00:01:04.689 We improved our EBIT slightly by 20 basis points to 16.4% or 971 00:01:05.155 -- 00:01:09.445 million Swiss francs. Our earnings per share increased by 8.5%. 00:01:09.445 -- 00:01:11.350 Our free 00:01:11.350 -- 00:01:16.985 cash flow was in line with our expectations slightly lower than our long-term guidance 00:01:16.985 -- 00:01:18.850 at 7.5% 00:01:18.850 -- 00:01:22.695 due to the higher value of the inventories. 00:01:23.242 -- 00:01:28.130 We operated in a challenging environment. It's not a surprise for any one of you. 00:01:28.130 -- 00:01:31.215 The cocoa price volatility 00:01:31.215 -- 00:01:36.243 forced us for the last four years to increase our prices overall in the area of 00:01:36.243 -- ...